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Daily Mac app: Battery Health monitors your Mac's battery

by Mel Martin (Apr 2nd, 2012)

With all the talk of battery life of iPhones and iPads it's easy to forget that your laptop battery needs some attention every so often. My laptop battery is pretty old, and it doesn't last as long as it used to. No surprise there, but I'd like to easily quantify its condition. That's where a ...

Daily Mac App: DragonDrop provides a Finder caddy for your drag-and-drop files

by Erica Sadun (Mar 28th, 2012)

Sometimes there are problems you didn't even know you had -- and solutions that make your life so much better. DragonDrop is one of those solutions. You know when you have to drag items between folders and you end up juggling multiple Finder windows? It's such a pain getting both windows ...

Daily Mac App: Screeny 2 let you capture video of your desktop with ease

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 6th, 2012)

Inevitably, there's going to be a time when you need to capture video of your screen. Someone might ask you to demo an app or document a bug, and you'll need have a reliable application to grab a quick video of your desktop. Instead of scrambling, you should be prepared and have Screeny installed ...

Snagit 2.0 arrives with expanded feature set (updated)

by Steven Sande (Feb 28th, 2012)

TechSmith's powerful Snagit app for capturing and annotating screenshots or websites has been around for a little over a year, having first been reviewed on TUAW in November 2010. Today Snagit (US$49.95) has been updated to version 2.0, expanding the capabilities of the app to a higher level. ...

Day One: A beautiful and functional cross-platform journaling app

by Steven Sande (Feb 27th, 2012)

Have you ever kept a journal or diary? For writers, it's almost a given that you're going to keep a personal log of what you do during each day, how you feel, or interesting things that might create that prize-winning book some day. For others, it's a way to keep track of health issues, emotions, ...

Daily Mac App: Osfoora is a sleek, no-frills Twitter client for OS X

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 20th, 2012)

If you're looking for a no-frills Twitter client with a pleasant UI, look no further than Osfoora for Twitter. The popular iOS Twitter client is now in the Mac App Store and is an excellent companion to the mobile title. Osfoora has a straight-forward UI that puts the necessary tweeting tools at ...

Daily iPhone App: Dine-O-Matic chooses a restaurant for you

by Dave Caolo (Feb 16th, 2012)

Eating at a restaurant is fun but getting a consensus from a group of diners can be a hassle. Offload the responsibly to your iPhone with Dine-O-Matic from the Iconfactory (currently on sale for US$0.99), which is more than happy to choose a restaurant for the whole gang. The app combines retro ...

Daily Mac App: Gemini finds and removes duplicate files

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 15th, 2012)

After years of buying hard drives and moving files around, digital hoarders like myself eventually wind up with duplicate files all over the place. A few gigabytes here and there can add up, so Gemini aims to help you find and delete duplicate files across devices. It's a beautifully designed app, ...

Daily Mac App: Dropzone circles your life with shortcuts

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 14th, 2012)

We first looked at Dropzone a few years ago when it launched for OS X and the little utility app is growing up. Now at version 2.0, Dropzone has a fresh, new circular look that's inspired by Path. It also includes a bunch of small improvements that'll help you manage your apps and files. For ...

Daily Mac App: Simple Skip Tunes feels like it should be part of OS X

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 13th, 2012)

We've tested a few menubar music remotes in the past, and there's not that much difference among them. What makes Skip Tunes different is its simplicity. It operates on the minimalist principle. It controls iTunes, Spotify or Rdio. Instead of getting a lengthy menu like with some apps, Skip Tunes ...

Daily Mac App: Text2Speech lets hear what you write in record time

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 10th, 2012)

OS X has a neat text-to-speech engine that'll read back what you write. You can start and stop TTS from the contextual menu or launch it using a keystroke that you set up in the Speech section of the System Preferences. Most of the settings for TTS are buried in the System Preferences which is ...

Daily Mac App: PopClip brings iOS-style copy and paste to your Mac

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 8th, 2012)

PopClip is a lightweight Mac utility that improves your ability to work with text. It sits in the menu bar and gives you an iOS-style popup that lets you cut, copy and paste text. You can also search for the selected text, open text links, correct spelling, and more. It's a real time saver once ...

Daily Mac App: Book Palette adds ten new templates to iBooks Author

by Steven Sande (Feb 7th, 2012)

That didn't take long. Only a few weeks after Apple's iBooks Author app debuted, template publisher Jumsoft began shipping Book Palette (US$2.99), a collection of ten professionally designed templates for iBooks Author. I had an opportunity to try Book Palette, which is packaged as a Mac app. Once ...

Daily Mac App: Saturn

by Mel Martin (Jan 31st, 2012)

I've just spent a pleasant hour exploring Saturn, which is free for a short time in the Mac App Store. The GUI is based on LCARS (Library Computer Access/Retrieval System) featured on some of the Star Trek shows and films. The app has a massive amount of data, and it's more than 1 GB to download. ...

Daily Mac App: AirBeam

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 23rd, 2012)

If you have an iPhone and iPad or Mac, you can set up an indoor surveillance system. All you need to get it going is AirBeam, which is software that turns your iPhone into a spy cam and your Mac desktop into a remote viewing station. Setup is simple -- just install AirBeam on all your hardware and ...